Chief Justice John Roberts: ‘It‘s Not Your Job to Decide What the Right Results Should Look Like; It’s Your Job To Do the Legal Analysis to the Best You Can’

RUSH EXCERPT:

ROBERTS: "I don‘t want to be glib in my answer but in a significant way you don‘t think about it that much. We approach cases with our particular ways of analyzing things. I don‘t start by saying that if it comes out this way this thing will happen and if that is a bad thing as opposed to that. You start out with rules about construction and application president and all that. If that leads you to a result where you look at it and you say, that cannot be. That is pretty bad. You might want to go back and look at your suppositions. Sometimes, the result is, certainly not maybe one you would have liked. Maybe it seems surprising. You do have to keep in mind, it‘s not your job to decide what the right results should look like. It is your job to do the legal analysis to the best you can. If it leads to some extraordinarily improbable result you want to go back and take another look at it. But I don‘t start from what the result looks like."